tear down

Most of the serious energy has been targeted toward tearing down homeless encampments, which are populated by the most powerless people in society, often destroying what meager possessions they have.

On top of that is the physical toll the work can extract, especially on the folks involved in setting up and tearing down sets.

A year after the murders, the school decided to tear down the off-campus house where the four students were killed, calling it a "grim reminder".

It's an age-old dilemma: to tear down in the name of modernity, or to preserve in the name of tradition.

“I just redid this bathroom because my brother, when they were tearing down the pink house, he got the sinks,” she says.